Pick of the Week: Film

In The LoopArmando Iannucci's frantic transatlantic political satire is full of quotably withering insults, absurdist screwball comedy and cherishable caricatures. Destined to become a cult classic.

Encounters At The End Of The WorldTrust Werner Herzog to come back from the south pole with a wonderful collection of strange sights, sounds and stories, both celebrating the world and anticipating its demise.

Let The Right One InThe extraordinary Swedish vampire movie arrives at last, a brooding, lyrical fairytale in which a poor, bullied 12-year-old befriends a bloodsucker during the bleak winter of 1982.

Observe And ReportSeth Rogen plays up his nasty side for this memorably uncomfortable mall-cop comedy, which treads a brave line between over-the-top laugh-in and violent outsider thriller.

ShiftyProof that you don't need a big budget or an arsenal of weapons to make a watchable ﬁ lm about troubled British youth, as old mates Daniel Mays and Riz Ahmed reunite and discover that much has changed.